Once again, I like The Compleat Academic because it is realistic and does not condescend. It does not assume incompetence, and it does not recommend fear. If I were a linguist I would you go through what is mostly said to graduate students and assistant professors and study the vocabulary. It is about how you … More What I mean, #3
I am taking the readings and marking them up in red — a sentence in English to summarize the point of each paragraph. I am also hyperlinking the references to famous people and events the students will not have heard of to definitions and encyclopedia entries. I am PDFing these documents and loading them up … More A teaching activity I do not think I should be doing
What is is about the Freyre apologists? 1. Arrogance: they think they are an enlightened elite and everyone else is unsubtle. 2. Argument by authority: they are exceptionalists, and because of their identity they have special knowledge nobody else can have. 3. Apologetics: they have excuses for everything. 4. Projection, projective identification, or something like these: “You are an X, therefore you … More On authoritarian behavior
→ The post of the day is from Feminéma, on salaries and negotiation, very important. → The post beautiful award for today goes to Jonathan, on poetry, theory, and poetics — what a relief it is to read that in lieu of the news. I had planned to spend this day on teaching activities, and … More What I mean, #2
→ I have changed my name again, to Coldhearted scientist. There was the Hedonistic pleasureseeker who had been called that as a criticism, and I have always been criticized as a coldhearted scientist so I am claiming that until I find my real name. I may delete this weblog if it says what it apparently … More Coldhearted scientist
I still say this is the best academic career guide. I know people like him but I still think Boice is condescending and infantilizing and not designed for people who already know how to read and write, and I still say that my dislike of soft writing guides like The Artist’s Way does not indicate … More The compleat academic
I am sure people do not believe it but I really am pouring out las últimas gotas not just of Reeducation but of all related traumas. This blog is about to go straight-up academic and merge with the Seminario Permanente. Acabaremos but I do have one more comment on things people say about work: “Life … More On the fallacy of “life invading”
I woke up yesterday happy but terror grew as the day went on. The terror: If I do not show I am curbing my research orientation by cheerfully engaging in extra service, I will be killed. I am in a state of sin by not being oriented toward lower and intermediate level teaching and if … More Managing terror
As we move to the entrepreneurial model of the university and serve students as customers, some would excise them from committees where they traditionally sat as part of shared governance. Lacking professional expertise in the matters at hand they will not be able to enhance “effectiveness.” Axé.
What if it is not “I hurt them terribly, in ways it was not fair of me to do and that still cause them daily pain, by being research oriented” — as I have always said since I accepted this as truth and repented for having disbelieved it for so long ago — but the … More Internalization
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